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Star Trek: New Voyages, Downloadable Video
tm2b writes "What if you could make new episodes of the original Star Trek, with the same characters, worse acting (believe it or not), better special effects, and lower resolution? It seems that some fans secured the Roddenberry family's support for doing just that. They call it Star Trek: New Voyages and they've completed one full episode and and working on another to be released in August. They plan to pick up with the fourth year of the "five year mission," and the first episode can be downloaded in zipped WMV format. It's worth checking out if you can ignore acting that actually makes you yearn for the quality of the original cast. Personally, I love seeing what they can do rendering the old ST tech with modern CGI."
Zipped WMV Format? Is this some sort of Romulan Empire technology I'm not familiar with? Boy, let me rush right over and download that! :P
Worse than Shatner?
Oh.....come.....on.....I.....find that......hard....to.....believe!
WARNING:Approaching Nerd Factor 9. . .
Seriously, though, I salute their courage and hard work. This can't have been simple to put together.
You are not the customer.
Another great fan made Star Trek is Hidden Frontier
Make the Star Trek name absolute mud? Honestly, it has all been downhill since TNG...
Star Trek DS9: "To boldly go... no where. We're on a freaking space station people. We stay stationary, people... that's our job - to be dull!"
Star Trek Voyager: "To boldly promote the worst captain ever! Yeah, Janeway - you go, girl. Magically know stuff that no one else does. Cool, baby!!!"
Star Trek Enterprise: "To boldly go and fuck up the entire timeline."
Give it up, already... this is just getting pathetic. Leave us with the good stuff and get rid of this marketing money-driven drivel.
Did they get Steven Segal as the captain, whose mission it is to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and BEAT THE CRAP out of their civilizations? (fade-in Segal beating the crap out of a green alien dude with his bare hands, then saying "Where the hell is that chick who jumped out of the cake?!")
;p
Ok, I admit it, I'm a troll.. I just can't help it. I like negative karma
I do not respond to cowards. Especially anonymous ones.
what's the point in zipping a WMV file ??? I can't imagine getting more than 1% gain, probably even a negative compression effect...
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
You know what would be useful?
A system like BitTorrent, but that could also be seeded with a list of URLs where the file is available online.
All copies of the software would work together, which each user automatically and optimally assigned different parts of the files to retrieve from the URLs. Using Content-Range: and those "seed" URLs, each user would download a different part to get things rolling. Then they would all work collectively to send those parts of the files back and forth between each other, until everyone has the whole file.
I went to Mirror 1. The page loaded quickly, as did the main page. I got confused. This was Star Trek and on Slashdot. I initiated the download. I got 0.1 KB / sec.
*phew*
The world hadn't gone crazy after all.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Scotty, beam me down a zipped WMV file!
Sir, I just doanna 'ave the power!
Bones, what the hell happend to those mirrors? .torrent!
They're dead, Jim.
Can't you bring them back up?
Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor not a
Baud!?
:-O
If you're still using that ancient unit, I really doubt you can get much better?
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Trashing Shatner's and Nimoy's acting shows you're really sophisticated, one of the in-crowd. Like EVERYbody agrees they can't act, right?
Stop being a mindless sheep. There is nothing wrong with Nimoy's acting, and little to complain about in Shatner's. They're not Alec Guinness, but their performances in the original Startrek were perfectly adequate.
Of course there's no need to take all the mirrors down but it's too late for such kindness because to paraphrase Mr Scott in "Wrath of Khan"
Kirk: "We've got to set up a torrent! The mirrors will die!"
Scotty: "They're dead already!"
New episodes of Star Trek (in any form) + Slashdot = server death. No way around it.
Appended to the end of comments you post. 120 chars.
The beginning of our fourth mission year brought a new challenge ... perhaps beyond our capabilities. Upon entry into Cyberian space, the efficiency of the Enterprise warp engines was reduced to nearly 1% of their rated capacity. Working together, Science Office Spock and Chief Engineer Scott have determined the physics of the region of space we currently occupy is somehow different from normal space - rapid movement, at least in the conventional sense, is impossible. Originally observed and reported by a member of the Engineering staff, the phenomena has been unofficially named for him.
Recommend commendation for Ensign Sleesh Doot for identification and communication of this phenomena. Let us all hope we are all able to make it out to be able to see he actually gets it.
The little guy just ain't getting it, is he?
Overnet already does something kind of like this.
The next time someone posts a link to a video instead of each and everyone trying to get the files and slashdotting the server in the process we do the following: Everyone flips a coin 10 times. The lucky guys (1 in 1024) whose coin flips all come up head actually go and download the files. Whose who got the files seed a .torrent.
No Slashdotting => happy slashdot crowd!
All of the mirrors must have all been wearing red shirts.
I belong to the ______ generation.
For too long Star Trek, the most important series in Geek history, has had second class status to Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings and even The Matrix. Those series has their own topics. Star Trek deserves better. Join the others who have signed the petition to give Star Trek a topic on Slashdot.
... is located here... At least until my tracker gets hosed.
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